Crossword-Solution: WHEEDLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Wheedle | v. t. | To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. |
| Wheedle | v. t. | To grain, or get away, by flattery. |
| Wheedle | v. i. | To flatter; to coax; to cajole. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WHEEDLE | anagram | WHEELED |
We have 22 clues for the answer “WHEEDLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Try to persuade by flattery or coax | 1 answer |
| Persuade by coaxing | 1 answer |
| Obtain by coaxing | 1 answer |
| He palavered her into going along | 1 answer |
| Employ flattery to persuade someone to do something | 1 answer |
| Persuade with deceitful flattery | 5 answers |
| Persuade by flattery | 6 answers |
| soft-soap | 7 answers |
| Wangle | 10 answers |
| blandish | 13 answers |
| Sweet talk | 20 answers |
| Ingratiate | 20 answers |
| Sweet-talk | 22 answers |
| work upon | 26 answers |
| Cajole | 33 answers |
| Fawn | 33 answers |
| Inveigle | 39 answers |
| Coax | 42 answers |
| Beguile | 50 answers |
| Persuade | 55 answers |
| flatter | 60 answers |
| humour | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHEEDLE (5)
But for all that, perhaps because they had longer heads than Tabary, perhaps because it is less easy to wheedle men in a body, they kept obstinately to generalities and gave him no information as to their exploits, past, present, or to come.
SHE did not degrade herself, did not sell herself, did not wheedle or cajole or pretend in the least degree.
Mean thing! To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him.” And Jo pulled her hair again with a wrathful tweak.
But Cordelia, disgusted with the flattery of her sisters, whose hearts she knew were far from their lips, and seeing that all their coaxing speeches were only intended to wheedle the old king out of his dominions, that they and their husbands might reign in his lifetime, made no other reply but this, that she loved his majesty according to her duty, neither more nor less.
His Sowship was driven sometimes to his wits’-end by his trimming between the general dislike of the Catholic religion at home, and his desire to wheedle and flatter it abroad, as his only means of getting a rich princess for his son’s wife: a part of whose fortune he might cram into his greasy pockets.
Quotes with WHEEDLE (3)
We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ("Happy days are back again")
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
The notion of children makes me ill. The thought of having one... when you see those guys in the supermarket, wheeling the trolley around while their brats whine and wheedle and some blundering sow questions every little thing they take off the shelves. I mean, just the fucking idea of it, the very word: family. Whenever I see it, on travel brochures, on house schedules... I feel sick.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1983–2024).